Garlic Salt

For a client lunch recently, I was led to a themed restaurant in a chic part of downtown Shen Zhen. The restaurant  Da Lang Wo (Big Wolf La...

Day One We sat around in bean bag circles, sort of like a benign underground brotherhood of nerds, and volleyed questions back and fort...

I knew this day would come eventually. I just didn't expect that it would happen so soon. Virtually within one day of finding out she...

When my family huddled together to watch the first US presidential debate in a hotel room in Cambodia, my younger brother declared somewhere...

One unreasonably late night, around two months ago, I sent in my resume for a job to fold clothes. There were definite pros and cons in th...

Recently, I've had a quite a few people who I look up to look at me in the eye and tell me that I'm going places. They seem so exc...

Back at BYU, when I decided to pack up and move to China to work at an American startup that provided micro credit to low income Chinese fac...

J always jokes and says that I "never let the truth get in the way of a good story." Most of the time, it's because I am tal...

J and I are complete opposites so we are constantly venturing out of our own reassuring comfort zones to meet the other more than half way. ...

For an end-of-year party at school, Jody watched Super Size Me , a documentary of a guy who eats McDonald's every day for a long time, w...

You work upstairs. I work downstairs. You drive me absolutely nuts. To the point where I don't even want to go to the upstairs office....

1 am. Doha airport. Waiting to board a flight back to Shanghai. Around 80 travelers, mostly Chinese people who escaped obligatory family r...

This week, I was told, twice actually, that I was "too nice." I guess it's a compliment and a constructive criticism meshed ...

I've learned my lesson: If you don't want to get sick and miss girl's church camp, do not make fun of it. But you have to admi...

I groped around in the dark, trying to steady myself on the wooden stool that was supposed to be in the corner. I wasn't sure what disar...

Our rhetoric professor challenged us to write a William Blake-esque poem about social ills. It's not the best, and the rhyme breaks down...

I read an article on NYT yesterday about how some MIT professors devised a computer program, compiling all your information they get from y...

I really really want a plaid shirt. I've looked at dozens and somehow I never buy them. I think it's because they are simply too . ....

I had officially instituted this weekend to be my time to be sad. I had three different plans for tonight. I ended up canceling all three of...

I'm not a liar but I have trouble saying how I really feel. But during those rare moments when I am being absolutely honest, I look in y...